Re:Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing ...
by duskwuff on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:21PM
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> Yes. You pay the price for portability. You have argued "but I don't port my software why should I pay the price? That only helps other people and there's nothing in it for me". OK, fair enough.
Portability to what, though?
It's 2022, not 1982. Most of the commercial UNIXes that autotools was written to handle are long dead now. When was the last time anyone saw a (non-embedded) system with CHAR_BITS ≠ 8, for example?
Portability to what, though?
It's 2022, not 1982. Most of the commercial UNIXes that autotools was written to handle are long dead now. When was the last time anyone saw a (non-embedded) system with CHAR_BITS ≠ 8, for example?